System response to drug trends

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Date
23 January 2024

Location
Online via Teams


Details

On 23 January 2024 Ruth Robin, Portfolio Lead for Transformation and Improvement in Drugs, Alcohol and Housing (TIDAH), Healthcare Improvement Scotland, hosted the sixth MAT Standards national webinar focusing on emerging trends in substance use and system responses to them. We learned about; 

  • Police Scotland’s Substance Harm Prevention strategy,
  • Non-Clinical Interventions For Stimulant Addiction,
  • The development of work in Benzodiazepine harm reduction.


Speakers

Donna Mackay

Inspector, Substance Harm Prevention, Police Scotland

Elise Wilson

Lead, Non-Fatal Overdose pathway in D Division, Police Scotland

Peter Cochrane,

Senior Recovery Development Worker, Recovery Scotland

Elinor Dickie

Organisational Lead, Drugs Team Place & Wellbeing Directorate at Public Health Scotland